Computing-scale.



UNITED STATES.

JOSEPH HOPKINSON, OF DAYTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE COMPUTING OHIO, A CORPORATION OF OHIO.

SCALE COMPANY, or DAYTON,

PATENT OFFICE.

COMPUTING-SCALE..-

Specification of Letters Patent.

' Patented March 27,1906.

d Application filed Deceinbe'r 4 190?; Serial No. 290,070.

{To allivhmit it mar concern: Be-it known that I, J OSEPH HOPKINSON, a

foitizen'of the United States,'residing at Dayton', in the county of'Montgomery and State of Ohio,'ha've invented certain new and useful Improvements in Computing-Scales, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in computingrscales, and 1particularly to that class of computing-sea es which employ a tabulated table-or chart and an indicatinghand adapted to be 'm'oved'to different posi-.

tlons over said table by the load.

The object of my invention is to improv'e the construction of the indicating-hand so that the amounts on the table or chart indicated' thereby may be more easily and accurately read.

My invention consists in the construction here nafter described, and pointed out in the claims. v

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 1s a. side view of 'a table or chart and its indexfhan'd embodyingv -y"invention. an a detail of the hand. Like parts are represented by similar let;

ters'of reference in both the views. 7

In scales of'this character the chart or table is provided with ','a series of rows of pricetotals, and the index-hand providedwitha "row of price-per-pound indications; one for each row of price-totals on the chart. Ithas been common to provideon' one edged the index-hand a series of fingers or pointers, one

for each price-per-ponnd indication, to point out or indicate the proper price-total on the chart, which requires a close scrutiny onthe part of the operator to ascertain the correct amount of the indication; To obviate this difiiculty and make the reading of the indications more siin le, I have constructed theindioating edge 0 the hand in the manner here inaftr described. In the said drawings, (1 represents the tabulated chart,

(1 represents the series of price-totals, the

' tabulated numerals thereon not being shown, however.

The top of the chart is provided with weight-indications, as shown at a". b is the index-hand, so arranged as to be are :placed the price-per-pound numerals,

(not-shown) there'being one of these pointers and price-per-p'ound indications for each row ofprice-totals on the chart.- That part of the hand opposite the weight-indicationsis cut away, as shown at 6 Extending along the outer ends of the fi'n- I.

gers or pointerstf is a fine wire or strip of metal- 0, this wire orstrip being secdr'ed'thereto by soldering or otherwise. The-wire or strip is also extended up across the cut-away portion?) and secured likenianner to the upper'end of the hand. The adjustment-is such that this fine Wire or strip will be brought opposite the proper point on the tabulated chart to indicate the proper'price-total 1 and will enable the operator to more readily and accurately read the indication.

' Having'-thus described my invention," 1

claimj1. In a coniputing scale, a-tabulated chart "having a series of rows of price-total indications andan index-hand arranged to n1o ve{ over said chart havinga series of price-per pound indications to cooperate'with theindications on said chart, a series oflpointers along one edge of said indeX-hand, one for each rowlof-price-total indications, a cutawa-yportion at the top of said hand and a row oi indications on said chart adjacent to said cut-away portion, and a thin strip of 1naterial extending across the cut-away portion,

substantially as and for the purpose specified, In acomputing-scaie, a tabulated chart havmg a series of rows of price-total indications, an mdex-hand arranged to be moved over said chart and having a series of priceper-pound indications to'cooperate with the price-total indications on said chart, a series of pointers along-one edge. of said indexhand, and a thinstrip of material extending over the series of pointers, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

3. In a computing-scale, a tabulated having a series of indications, an index-handalso having a series of indicatmns-to'cbper- IQO- 1". .Aid

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set.

ate with the indications on said chart and my hand this 25th day of November, A. D. .10

adapted to be moved over said chart, said index-hand beingcut away at intervals to cor- 1905.

res ond to the indications thereon and a Y strap of material extending along the index- JOSEPH HOPKINSOA' hand and across the series}? cut-away por- Witnesses:

S. L. MOKEE,

tions,substant-ially as and for the purpose I D. A. DE VANNEY.

specified. 

